“The antics that these turkeys go through to avoid the obvious fact that the universe is bounded and finite would be more appropriate for a vaudeville act.”
Size of universe:
Size
The proper distance – the distance as would be measured at a specific time, including the present – between Earth and the edge of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years (14×109 pc), making the diameter of the observable universe about 91 billion light-years (28×109 pc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
Please pit this into a perspective I can relate to like furlongs...............